ACHSA is a local support group for home schooling families in the lower Fraser Valley. We are one of the largest home school groups in Canada. ACHSA has over 70 families, and is growing each year. Our group provides support, prayer, opportunities, and friendships. We believe face to face connection in the context of Christian fellowship is a valuable means of finding strength and confirmation for this journey.
The Executive committee prays for the members of the association and plans encouraging fellowship with other Christian home schooling families. We on the executive committee believe our task is to facilitate activities for the membership, not provide them. we greatly encourage members to plan activities they desire for their families and invite the association to join in. Members are blessed as they see their initiative benefiting other families. As a large association, we have a wide variety of connections, skills, interests and abilities to share with one another.
Family membership is for the school calendar year from September to August. Registration is online. You may join our group at the early bird rate of $25 until the kickoff meeting in September (see Event page for poster with dates). On or after the kickoff meeting, membership is $35. In order for us to update our records accurately and prepare for the year, we appreciate your co-operation with timely registration. A single parent family membership fee is $10 per year.
Payment options:
a) bring cash or cheque (written to A.C.H.S.A.) to the kickoff meeting
b) mail check to our treasurer (see family directory for address)
c) pay direct online with credit card or Paypal (a $1 fee will be added for those wishing to pay online)
Note: registration is not complete until payment is confirmed. If this fee is a financial stretch, please ask our leadership about sponsorship.
We are happy to support the BC Home Learner's Association (BCHLA) and Homeschool Special Education (SPED). Both of these organizations plan various events and host support groups for home schooling families.
The Executive committee prays for the members of the association and plans encouraging fellowship with other Christian home schooling families. We on the executive committee believe our task is to facilitate activities for the membership, not provide them. we greatly encourage members to plan activities they desire for their families and invite the association to join in. Members are blessed as they see their initiative benefiting other families. As a large association, we have a wide variety of connections, skills, interests and abilities to share with one another.
Family membership is for the school calendar year from September to August. Registration is online. You may join our group at the early bird rate of $25 until the kickoff meeting in September (see Event page for poster with dates). On or after the kickoff meeting, membership is $35. In order for us to update our records accurately and prepare for the year, we appreciate your co-operation with timely registration. A single parent family membership fee is $10 per year.
Payment options:
a) bring cash or cheque (written to A.C.H.S.A.) to the kickoff meeting
b) mail check to our treasurer (see family directory for address)
c) pay direct online with credit card or Paypal (a $1 fee will be added for those wishing to pay online)
Note: registration is not complete until payment is confirmed. If this fee is a financial stretch, please ask our leadership about sponsorship.
We are happy to support the BC Home Learner's Association (BCHLA) and Homeschool Special Education (SPED). Both of these organizations plan various events and host support groups for home schooling families.
Membership Benefits
As a Member You:
The registration fees are spent on things that will benefit the membership; rent of facilities, special speakers, web site, subsidized events, insurance and library books are a few examples. The ACHSA executive committee makes these decisions.
Non-Members
Everyone is invited to attend and “check out” the Association at their first meeting. Further attendance will require membership status.
ACHSA events are sometimes geared towards specific age groups. We ask that parents be aware of this and are sensitive to distracting noises of young children in consideration of the individuals who have invested time and preparation to present to our group.
- May attend our association meetings, occasional Mom’s Night Out, participate in our annual spring co-op: The Learning Center (TLC), and any special events or activities. Some activities offered may require additional sign up and payment to hold your place.
- Will be included in our exclusive closed email chain. We do not share your email address outside of ACHSA.
- Will receive a family directory of the year's current members listing contact information and names and ages of children.
- May sign out books, curriculum, DVDs and PE action kits from our library cart during Sept-May. Check out our book titles via Libib here: http://achsa15.libib.com
The registration fees are spent on things that will benefit the membership; rent of facilities, special speakers, web site, subsidized events, insurance and library books are a few examples. The ACHSA executive committee makes these decisions.
Non-Members
Everyone is invited to attend and “check out” the Association at their first meeting. Further attendance will require membership status.
ACHSA events are sometimes geared towards specific age groups. We ask that parents be aware of this and are sensitive to distracting noises of young children in consideration of the individuals who have invested time and preparation to present to our group.
Statement of Faith
The Bible is the inspired and infallible word of God and constitutes complete and final revelation the Bible in its original autograph is without error in whole or in part, including theological concepts as well as geographical and historical.
God has existed from all eternity in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ was God come in human flesh, being fully God and fully man except without sin.
All men are in violation of God’s righteous requirements and His holy character by nature and act, and are therefore under His wrath and just condemnation. The central purpose for the coming of Jesus Christ was to pay the penalty for man’s sin through His substitutionary death on the cross- the successful accomplishment of which was attested to by subsequent visible, bodily resurrection.
Salvation is offered as a gift; free to the sinner. This gift must be responded to in individual faith, not trusting in any personal works whatsoever, but the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ alone.
God has existed from all eternity in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ was God come in human flesh, being fully God and fully man except without sin.
All men are in violation of God’s righteous requirements and His holy character by nature and act, and are therefore under His wrath and just condemnation. The central purpose for the coming of Jesus Christ was to pay the penalty for man’s sin through His substitutionary death on the cross- the successful accomplishment of which was attested to by subsequent visible, bodily resurrection.
Salvation is offered as a gift; free to the sinner. This gift must be responded to in individual faith, not trusting in any personal works whatsoever, but the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ alone.
"I have been blessed by knowing some of the ladies in ACHSA. Throughout my years of home schooling I have found encouragement at the meetings to continue on in the journey."